I’m not sure if Neal Stephenson is the geek Chuck Norris or the geek Paul Bunyan:
Stephenson spends his mornings cloistered in the basement, writing longhand in fountain pen and reworking the pages on a Mac version of the Emacs text editor. This intensity cannot be sustained all day—”It’s part of my personality that I have to mess with stuff,” he says—so after the writing sessions, he likes to get his hands on something real or hack stuff on the computer.
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…brain surgery is one of the things Stephenson is tinkering with.
Novelist Neal Stephenson Once Again Proves He’s the King of the Worlds
via [LMG]